Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-12

We are to hGs rat q $40 ls lEt Xcusable IN
proportion as it is great.
know in our time the tendency is to
charge RELIGIOUS frauds up Ii good men.
They say, "Oh, what clsss Of frauds you
have in the Caurch of God in this day."
ana when an elfer of church or dea-
con or O minister Of tie Gospel or =
superintendent Sabbath school turns
out detsulter, what display hesds there
are in many Of the newspapers. Great
prim+r type. Five line plea. "Apother
SAINT khsconded," Clerical Scouudrel-
ism," religion st q DISCOUNT" "Shsme
on the Churches" while there are
THOUSAND sCoUNDRELs
outside the church to where there is ore
inside the church, and the misbehavior of
those who never see the inside Of church
is SO greet it is enough TO tempt s man to
become O Christian TO get out of their
company. But in all circles, religious
and 1rreligious, the tendency is TO excuse
s,n in proportion a. 1t is maTm >tb l..
Even John Milton 10 his paradise Lost,"
while he condemns Satan, gives such a
grand description Of him you have hard
work to suppress your admiration. o.,
this strainiDg out of small sins like gnsts
and this gulpipg down great iniquities
like csmels.
This subject does not give the picture
Of one or two persons, but is gallery in
which thousands Of people msy see their
likeness. For instance, all those people
Who, while they would not rob their
neighbor of fsrthing, appropriate the
money and the treasure of the public. A
man has house to sell, snd be tells his
customer it is worth $4,000. N 1t day
the assessor comas around the owner
says 1t is. worth SIS 600. The govern
ment of the Uuited States took off the
tax from personal income, among ether
reasons because so few people would tell
the truth, ana many man wi an in
come Of hundreds OF dollars q day made
statements which seemed TO imply he was
about to be handed over to the overseer
OF the poor. Careful to pay their passage
from Liverpool TO New York, yet snug
ling in their Saratoga trunk ten silk
dresses from Paris and a half dozen
watches from Geneva. Switzerland, tell
ing the custom house officer On the
wharf: "rhere is nothing 10 that trunk
but wearing apparel" and putting q Us
gGld-p piece in Lis hand to puuctuate the
statement
Described in the text are ell those who
are particular never to break the Law OF
grammar, and who want sill their Ian
guage an elegant specimen Of syptax,
strsining out all the inaccuracies OF
speech With foe sieve OF literary crit
icism, while through their conversation
go s. ander and inuuendO, and profanity
| sud talsehoOd larger than whole caravan
OF csmels, when hey might better frac-
ture every law of the language and
SHOCK INTELLECTUAL TASTE,
and better let every verb seek in vain for
its nominative, and every noun for its
government, and every proposition lose
it's way in the sentence, an adjectives
and participates and pronouns get into q
grand riot worthy OF the Four ward Ga
! election day, than to commit moral in
accuracy. Better swallow o thousand
gnsts than one camel.
Such persons are also described in the
text who are very much alarmed about
the small faults of others, and have no
alarm about their own great transgres-
sions. There are in every community
and in every church watch
dogs who feel called upon to
Keep their eyes on others and
& o VI. They are full of suspicious. They
| " Jnder if ,tat man is not dishonest, If
that man is not unclesn, if there is not
8 netting wrong ABOUT the 9th r
man. They are always the fist
t. hear Of anythiog wrong
Vultures are always the first to
smell carrion. They are self appointed
detectives. 1 lay this down as rule
without an exception, that those people
who have the most faults themselves are
most merciless in their watching of 9th
ers. From scalp of head 20 sole OF foot
they are full of jealousies and hypercriti-
cisms. They spend their life in hunting
for muskrets and mudturtles instead OF
hunting for Rocky Mountain eagles, al
ways for something mean instead OF
something grand They look at their
neighbours imperfections through micr =
scope, and look at their own lmper!ec-
lions through telescope upside down.
Twenty faults OF their own do not hurt
| them 60 much as one fault OF somebody
else. Their neighbours imperfections are
like gnats and they strain them out;
their own imperfections are like camels
and they swallow them.
But lest some light think they escape
the scrutiny Of the text have to tell you
that we ell come under s.
THE DIVINE SATIRE,
when, we make the questions OF time
more prominent than the questions OF
eternity. Come now, let Us all go into the
confessional. Are not oil tempted to
make the question "Where shall live
noa?" greater thsn the question "Wh' re
shall 1 live forever" Chow shall ge t
N, re dollar.?" gre ater than the questIf n
GLOW shall y Up treasures in hesvei -
The question "H 81 shall pay my debts
to MANI" greater than the question
chow shall 1 meet my obligations to
Goc!" The question "How shall gain
the world?" grea'er than the que stion
"What If 1 lose my sou!?" The question
"Why did God let sin come into the
worlo?" greater than the qres-
ton elbow shall I get 1t extir-
psted from my nature!'s The question
"Wnat shall l do with the twenty CT
forty or seventy y ars Of my subunar exs
| istence?'' greater than the question,
"Whst shall do with the millions ofcycles
of my pos.-terrestrsl existence?" Time
how small it is! Eternisy-how vast 1t
is! The former more insignificant in
comparison with the latter than gnat is
insignificant when compared with q
camel. We lodged the text. We said,
"That doesn't mean me, and that doesn't
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